| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: of happy thoughts and sensations? How much of it was owing to the
spell of the perfect afternoon, the scent of the fading woods,
the thought of the dulness she had fled from? Lily had no
definite experience by which to test the quality of her feelings.
She had several times been in love with fortunes or careers, but
only once with a man. That was years ago, when she first came
out, and had been smitten with a romantic passion for a young
gentleman named Herbert Melson, who had blue eyes and a little
wave in his hair. Mr. Melson, who was possessed of no other
negotiable securities, had hastened to employ these in capturing
the eldest Miss Van Osburgh: since then he had grown stout and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: was just a blot around his feet. We looked,
and the Grinnage clock was so close to twelve the
difference didn't amount to nothing. So Tom said
London was right north of us or right south of us, one
or t'other, and he reckoned by the weather and the
sand and the camels it was north; and a good many
miles north, too; as many as from New York to the
city of Mexico, he guessed.
Jim said he reckoned a balloon was a good deal the
fastest thing in the world, unless it might be some
kinds of birds -- a wild pigeon, maybe, or a railroad.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and
laid them down there.
JOS 4:9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the
place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant
stood: and they are there unto this day.
JOS 4:10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of
Jordan, until everything was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to
speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and
the people hasted and passed over.
JOS 4:11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed
over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the
King James Bible |
